While America Sleeps

China doesn't. They just launched a hypersonic reentry vehicle designed to deliver a nuclear payload at 8,000 mph but be able to fly a complex route, not just a ballistic trajectory like a missile. It is hard enough to hit a ballistic warhead with an anti-missile interceptor, but a steerable hypersonic vehicle is geometrically more difficult because its route is not predictable. In the meantime we are cutting our defense budget and neglecting to modernize our own forces. Enjoy the nap, America - at this rate we will soon be waking up to a Chinese dinner.

gizmodo.com/chinas-new-hypersonic-missile-can-scream-past-us-air-d-1501458331